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'We didn't show enough quality'

Mikel Arteta offered no excuses for the team's performance on Sunday evening, which saw us exit the Emirates FA Cup at the third-round stage for only the second time in the past 26 years.

We were below par for the duration of the tie at Nottingham Forest's City Ground, eventually going down 1-0 to a late Lewis Grabban goal.

"We didn't have enough quality to penetrate in the right areas," Arteta told Arsenal Media at full-time. "To get the ball into their final third and create danger and be incisive and attack the right spaces with a different level of determination.